I thought the buffer was more like stasis than a VR. I only really saw it referenced a lot in Strange New Worlds, where it was pretty clearly static.
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It does whatever the bloody hell O'Brien wants it to do.
TOS era transporters and post TNG transporters work somewhat differently. Transporting someone in TOS freezes them, where in TNG, they can move and talk. Plus DS9 uses Cardassian tech, so who knows what they have going on.
Canonically, moving during transport is pre-TNG, even. It first appeared in one of the TOS-cast feature films - maybe even the first: "The Motion Picture." I don't recall off the top of my head. But pattern buffers themselves I think weren't "invented" until after the TOS generation. Probably introduced to address the horribly transporter accidents that could occur, as in the films. Anyway, I don't think they had the buffer technology before TNG, and I don't think it affected one east or 'tother whether people could move and talk during transport. I think that was more a result of the capabilities of period FX.
“Everything works all the time on this ship, I’m slowly going mad!”
The response he craves:
“I told you guys to stop using LimeWire!”
I watched that episode last night!
DS9 doesn't exist and it never did in the Trek universe.
It was all just an elaborate holo program designed and maintained by Chief O'Brien where he kept all his unsuspecting transport buffer victims alive for his own entertainment.
He just stepped in once in a while as an unlucky maintenance engineer to keep everyone from suspecting what he was really doing. His frustrations and difficulties all happened because he had to keep expanding the program. His victims kept wandering further and further away into the fantasy of the holo program which grew to an enormous size he had to use a custom created and maintained remote space station to keep it running.
This is the Star Trek version of “Ash is in a coma.”
Does that mean he’s trapped Worf?
I wonder what Worf did to deserve that
No one refuses The Chief!
This station is powered by synth ale, hate, and Jamaican blend double strong double sweet.
... and the Klingon drink 'Raktajino' .... aka to humans simply as 'meth'
